Texas

Storm History: Bexar County, Texas

755 episodes, 1,629 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bexar County, Texas: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
1,629
Deaths
132
Injuries
982
Damage
$1.7 billion
Episodes
755

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Flash Flood49828651$1.4 billion
Hail47430$152 million
Tornado3902375$120 million
Drought8500
Thunderstorm Wind73220$2.8 million
Flood340200$16 million
Winter Weather1600$1.2 million
Winter Storm1540
Tropical Storm1000$101,000
Excessive Heat800
Heat76929
Wildfire600$1.8 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Lightning327
Ice Storm300
Cold/Wind Chill110
Strong Wind100$250,000

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Bexar County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bexar CountyEvery warning in Bexar County since 1986Every county in Texas

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.